Sailing vessel on way to SC finds accidental NC home

11:40 PM,
Jan. 25, 2013

The Fritha will spend the next several months docked in Beaufort, N.C.

Written by

Anna Harvey
Carteret County News-Times

A particularly unique sailing vessel from Fairhaven, Mass., will spend the next several months docked here, after accidentally stumbling across the town on its way to Charleston, S.C., where it originally intended to winter.

The ship, called the Fritha, is special not only for its magnificent design and eye to detail but for the role it has played in the lives of several foreign teenagers who have participated in "The Fairhaven Project."

This project has previously taken several small groups of Palestinian and Israeli teenagers and placed them onboard together for about three weeks. ...